Interesting

I am currently in a Chronic Disease Prevention class. We read a lot about how what we eat and how much we exercise now will help prevent chronic diseases like cancer, heart disease and diabetes. Eating right and exercising will help to give us more functional years at the end of our lives, it's called compression morbidity.

Anyway, we have read a LOT of articles about how this is a good idea (to eat right and exercise). In several of the articles they talk about research that has been done on people who live healthy lifestyles. Over half of the articles we have read mention Mormons. They talk about how they don't smoke, they get enough sleep, and they are fairly active and they have more functional years at the end of their lives. I just thought it was really cool that other people outside of the church are recognizing this. It's a pretty cool way to share the gospel. You can live a healthy lifestyle and people will wonder what your 'secret' is, and then you can tell them about the Word of Wisdom and how rather than it being a list of what you can't do, it has given you so much freedom to live your life now. Pretty cool.